Watch: Was Manchester City’s Guardiola wrong to offload this world-class star?

Joe Hart single-handedly spared England’s blushes in Slovenia on Tuesday night, pulling off an array of spectacular saves to preserve the Three Lions’ unbeaten start to their 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign in Group F by securing a 0-0 draw.

The 29-year-old twice denied Josip Ilicic superbly when he was played in by poor backpasses from stand-in captain Jordan Henderson and Eric Dier.

But, undoubtedly, his finest stop came shortly after the interval when the Manchester City shot stopper somehow turned Jasmin Kurtic’s close-range header onto the crossbar, before colliding into his near post himself.

Having encountered a difficult start to the 2016/17 season, being offloaded to Serie A outfit Torino on a season-long loan, has new Citizens boss Pep Guardiola made a mistake by deeming the Englishman surplus to requirements at the Etihad Stadium this term?

Guardiola’s City currently sit top of the Premier League table, but only by one point after being defeated 2-0 by their nearest rivals Tottenham last time out.